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Read * Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter PDF by * Randy L. Schmidt eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter Karen was the instantly recognizable lead singer of the Carpenters. It tells a story as touching, warm, and involving as any of Karen’s greatest songs.. Little Girl Blue is an intimate profile of Karen Carpenter, a girl from a modest Connecticut upbringing who became a Southern California superstar. During their short musical career, the Carpenters released ten studio albums, toured more than 200 days a year, taped f
| Title | : | Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.95 (783 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0057DA604 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
Karen was the instantly recognizable lead singer of the Carpenters. It tells a story as touching, warm, and involving as any of Karen’s greatest songs.. Little Girl Blue is an intimate profile of Karen Carpenter, a girl from a modest Connecticut upbringing who became a Southern California superstar. During their short musical career, the Carpenters released ten studio albums, toured more than 200 days a year, taped five television specials, and won three Grammys and an American Music Award. But that’s only a part of Karen’s story. Little Girl Blue reveals Karen’s heartbreaking struggles with her mother, brother, and husband; the intimate disclosures she made to her closest friends; her love for playing drums and her frustrated quest for solo stardom; and the ups and downs of her treatment for anorexia
A wonderful musical legacy but a sad life During their heyday from 1970 - 1976, the Carpenters, or more specifically their image, were often derided as bland, vanilla and uninteresting. Many people who considered themselves hip in the 70s would rarely admit to owning a Carpenters record or even liking them (considering the millions of records sold, many of those who publicly dismissed the group probably had their albums hidden at home.)But Karen Carpenter's sudden and unexpected death at the age of 32 in 1983 belatedly let the world know that the Carpenters had a much more complicated story than the wholesome images presented by. FINALLY - The Whole Heartbreaking Story of A Lost Soul I've been a Carpenters fan since age eight when I could hear "Close to You" coming through my older cousin's ear piece on her transistor AM radio. Next came drum lessons in grade five. Karen was my idol and my sisters and I devoured her LPs and cassettes like food groups while learning the art of precise harmonies in the process.So, news of this latest and wonderful biography had me champing at the bit as soon as I heard about its release.I could not put this book down. And this did not necessarily serve my sleep well (note to self: do not expect to have a good night's sleep if you read . KAREN: A Victim, partly of her own making It was obvious that Karen grew up under the thumb of her mother and believed mothers press about Richard having the musical talent in the family. Sadly, the investment in Richard was the only thing that mother, Agnes could see and she wanted it known that she was the rock on which the Carpenters was built. Sadly for this woman, her Jezebel spirit was the one who actually dominated her and by vicarious means, her daughter. Richard's arrogance probably stems from Mother Agnes in observations from this book and interviews he gave after Karen's death, Karen was an ever-pleasing daughter, sis
From Publishers Weekly From the beginning, Richard, not Karen, was the talented musician whose parents moved across the country for a better career. Karen dabbled in music and tagged along on gigs, but it would be years before her show-stopping voice commanded the spotlight. This was one setback too many for the gifted singer, and by 1983 she was dead, at 32. Schmidt tracks the anxieties that seem to have driven her eating disorder, including a controlling mother and the lack of a stable love life. All rights reserved. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . And that shift, when the forgotten little sister became star of the act, Schmidt argues, marked the beginning of Karen's d
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